Procaster was crashing with the latest BlackMagic Decklink Driver version 9.5. We fixed this to ensure Procaster will no longer crash when using the latest BlackMagic Decklink Driver Version 9.5.

Procaster would sometimes stop with "Capture Card Async Detected Errors" We made improvements to ensure this will no longer occur.

We added a new feature that gives the ability to select your own input aspect ratio.

We added a new feature that enables the Livestream Procaster window to stay "Always on top." After installing Livestream Procaster, this feature is set to off by default. The ‘Always on Top’ feature can be turned on in the Preferences dialog on the Desktop Tab.

Full list of bug fixes and improvements:

Audio Improvements:

Overall audio performance has been improved.

Procaster was sometimes dropping audio during the start and/or finish of a broadcast. This is fixed and will no longer occur.

Specific Improvements have been made to improve audio for Windows XP users.

Version 20.2 of Procaster

This version features

Major video and audio quality improvements with improved bit rate usage control

Perfect Audio/Video Synchronization live and on-demand. Previous versions had various issues with lipsync during long encoding sessions

Reduced CPU usage when streaming

Stream at higher bitrate over the same Internet connection: Improved the connection usage, so that you can utilize utilize your connection more efficiently.

New easy to understand status message in the control bar with suggested solutions :

“Perfect Streaming” means that your stream is being sent to the Livestream server perfectly. No lag and no connection or CPU issues.

“CPU above 80% try closing other apps or stop lower quality” means that your CPU usage is above 80% and that you should close some other applications. When your CPU reaches 100%, Procaster may stop broadcasting.

“Internet too slow for quality avoid shared connections or stop and lower quality” means that Procaster is not getting the full bandwidth it needs to stream and you should lower the quality of streaming in the main window.

“Lost internet connection. Attempting to reconnect. Local MP4 still recording.” Means that your internet connection fully dropped and that Procaster is trying to reconnect. The local recording will always keep recording.

Anti lag feature - When enabled (default), it will keep the delay between you and your viewer, up to a maximum of 10 seconds. The local MP4 file recording will always have all the frames, even if anti-lag kicks in

Continue to encode and record locally even when the internet connection is dropped - When your internet connection suddenly drops, Procaster will continue recording and will go live again once you have regained connectivity. This can also be used to switch from one internet connection to another when experiencing an issue.

HD Multi-bitrate Support on browser and mobile devices:

You can now select qualities to stream at two, three or four bitrates at the same time (If you have enough resources - CPU/Memory/Bandwidth etc…).

The new Livestream Player now offers the ability for the user to select any of the streams you are publishing from Livestream Procaster.

When viewing your live stream on iPad and iPhone devices, the bitrate is automaticallyt selected (adaptive) based on the viewers connection and the number of qualities you are encoding from Procaster.

Note: This only currently works with live streams, the recorded stream will be the main default stream (typically a 450-600Kbps stream)

Recording of all qualities to your “My Videos” folder by default

Improved detection on the removal and adding of audio devices

Perfect audio synchronization and the recorded files can be edited in Adobe Premiere and in Final Cut Pro.

- High & Mobile sends two video streams to the Livestreams servers. The "High" stream is used for the Web player and the Mobile stream is used for Mobile playback (iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry) on m.livestream.com/[channel_name] or our iPhone application.

- We will introduce, new settings including a triple stream option called: “HD, High & Mobile” once the Livestream player supports user selection of bitrate (for live and on-demand archive). The HD will 1280x720p resolution at 1.5Mbps.

- VP6 support has been permanently removed (this was a popular feature for games streams broadcasters). Based on user feedback, we now believe that this latest version of our H264 encoder provide better image quality and performance than VP6.

- New Feature to name and save or delete a recording directly from Procaster. This option is shown once you stop a live stream.

- Game streaming : New Interactive HUD with in-game chat input and Twitter

- Game streaming : We are working on supporting DirectX11 and extend the list of certified games in the next release of Procaster. Please let us know the games you would like us to certify in this forum thread : http://www.livestream.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5664

Use the "High + Mobile Quality" to send a 700Kbps stream to the web player and a 300 Kbps to the mobile player on mobile.livestream.com/[your channel].
You will need enough bandwidth (1.5 Mbps upload) and CPU (Quad core recommended) to support this feature